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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
its leavings. Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
several fatalities there. There were 28,000 employees at that mine; we brought people up from below ground and worked to retrain and refocus them. We lost millions of dollars while production was curtailed, but it was the right thing to do. We’ve improved our View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
economic battlefield, emerging markets like Russia -- where Nestlé is active -- represent valuable new territory for the highly competitive consumer foods business. Nestlé, the world's largest packaged-food company, has always emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)
2014: The Election That Changed India, by Rajdeep Sardesai. Favorite US hotels: The NoMad and the Standard on the High Line in New York; the Delano in Miami. Any property owned by Aman Resorts. Perk of the job: “I’m a little bit of a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Cheese Whiz
At Specialty Cheese Co. in Reeseville, Wisconsin, founder Paul Scharfman (MBA 1979) heads up a company that makes one of the state’s best-known exports: cheese. But as its name suggests, Specialty’s 250 employees manufacture products more unusual than the View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
different sources (e.g., food versus fire safety). Up Close and Personal: Developing Foundations for Leader Development through Personalization of Management Learning Authors:Gianpiero Petriglieri, Jack Wood, and Jennifer L. Petriglieri... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
information standards in accounting (through the Financial Accounting Standards Board) and in food labeling (through the Food and Drug... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
economy and brings food to the table through microenterprise - selling oranges, repairing shoes, making utensils out of scrap metal. We provide access to credit that those people can't otherwise get. Over the last five years, we've... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
corporate practices in his country, championing modern concepts of production and manufacturing as well as adherence to the highest standards of governance. Nancy M. Barry (MBA ’75) For fifteen years, Nancy Barry has been president of... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
expensive, and many observers were questioning the ability of this country to compete in the world economy. Convinced that the postindustrial era had arrived in America, the chairman of the Ogden Corporation, a giant New York-based conglomerate whose operating units... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
and limiting production volumes; illegal poultry imports threaten food safety while undercutting prices of domestic product; corruption is rampant; debt is exorbitantly expensive; commercial real estate is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
United States began to use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. The emergence of the synthetic dye industry paralleled the growth of mass production and mass marketing in the American... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
intrusive, and negative." That wariness is costly, because feedback from the front lines is often vital to improving business practices and safety measures. With that in mind, Edmondson discussed how to foster a workplace culture of open... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
might have a situation where a group of our engineers is working on old equipment that is not only inefficient but also might also present a safety risk. Or we might have a situation in which the building itself has View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 03 Jan 2018
- What Do You Think?
In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?
Sam agreed: "This should be standard business practice." He asked, "Why do these boards not have a member who truly understands Compliance/Governance?" John would go even further. "Yes to a compliance officer This... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
over a shared love of India (we both lived there at various times), startups, and the natural foods space. We even realized that we had a mutual friend who then turned out to be one of our first investors when we started Hilma! So today... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
of India's Public R&D Laboratories By: Khanna, Tarun, and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract—In this paper, we build on the standard resource dependence theory and its departure suggested by Vernon to offer a novel explanation for why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
employees. And, because standard interviews enable you to spot trends but unstructured ones elicit unexpected insights, consider combining the two approaches in semi-structured interviews. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne